Press Release

MEMORIAL SERVICE AT UN HEADQUARTERS HONOURS FALLEN STAFF

The annual memorial ceremony at United Nations Headquarters today culminated with the reading of the names of the 111 United Nations staff members fallen in the service of the Organization in the last 12 months.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

GENERAL ASSEMBLY DECIDES ON NEW DATES FOR MAURITIUS

INTERNATIONAL MEETING:  10 - 14 JANUARY 2005

Opportunity to SupportSmallIslands That Must

Not Be Missed, Says Meeting’s Secretary-General, Anwarul Chowdhury

united nations official calls for action to reinforce progress in poorest nations

NEW YORK, 11 June -- There is both opportunity and urgency to address the needs of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the United Nations’s High Representative for the those nations, Anwarul Chowdhury, said today.

UGANDA:  ATTACKS ON internally displaced persons CAMPS KILL

MORE THAN 125 IN PAST MONTH

NEW YORK, 11 June (OCHA) -- The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, has condemned a series of attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) on camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Uganda that have left more than 125 people dead in the past four weeks.

IMPROVED HUMANITARIAN ACCESS needed IN BuKAVU,

says un emergency relief coordinator

NEW YORK, 11 June (OCHA) -- Since fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo erupted around Bukavu on 26 May, there have been reports that sexual violence has been widespread and that some 50 civilians have been killed.

GOVERNMENTS, BUSINESS FIRMS, DONORS MEET IN GENEVA

ON GLOBAL CLEAN-UP OF TOXIC PCBS

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 10 June (UNEP) -- Governments, donor agencies and commercial firms from around the world are meeting here for two days to promote international efforts to rid the world of PCBs, one of 12 highly toxic chemicals targeted for elimination by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

three crises -– collective security, global solidarity, intolerance -– test

un system, us leadership, says Secretary-General at harvard commencement

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s commencement address at HarvardUniversity, entitled “Three crises, and the need for American leadership”, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 10 June:

three crises -– collective security, global solidarity, intolerance -– test

un system, us leadership, says Secretary-General at harvard commencement

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s commencement address at HarvardUniversity, entitled “Three crises, and the need for American leadership”, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 10 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS KILLING OF 11 CHINESE WORKERS, AFGHAN GUARD

IN ‘CONTEMPTIBLE’ ATTACK ON UNARMED CIVILIANS IN AFGHANISTAN

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: